Macleans Scraper
Spider read macleans.ca in 137 ms without a browser and returned 231 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "REAL ESTATE" and "Universities & Colleges".
Faced with an uncertain future, young Canadians are racking up more debt than ever before. Portrait of a generation on the instalment plan.DRAWN TO CANADA### A History of Canada in 24 ObjectsBagged milk, Cheezies, crokinole, BlackBerry: inside one artist’s project to depict Canadian identityUNFRIENDLY SKIES### Are Canada’s Airlines Doomed?Not if we start backing customers—and penalizing sloppy serviceDIGITAL CULTURE### Non-Toxic Social Media Is PossibleMUSIC### The Anti-Slop Music ResistanceAngine de Poitrine, a mega-popular masked rock duo from Quebec, are making songs for real humansTHE INTERVIEW### Suzanne Simard Speaks for the TreesCanada’s forestry firebrand has a surprisingly rosy environmental outlook### REAL ESTATEHABITAT### Little House in the CountyA Toronto family restores an 1863 farmhouse into a Marie Antoinette–inspired retreatFor years, homeownership felt like a fantasy for many Canadians. Now first-time buyers may finally have a real shot.THE BUILDINGS### The Uglification of CanadaThe country’s architecture is offensively bland. Now’s the time to make it beautiful.THE BUILDING### Behold Vancouver’s New Earthquake-Resistant HighriseThe Hive is ready for the Big OneDOMESTIC DINING### 20 Reasons to Eat Canadian Right NowA bucket list of homegrown restaurants, chefs and dishes to experience this summer### Universities & CollegesEducation### Introducing the 2026 *Maclean’s* Ultimate Guide to Canadian UniversitiesUniversity admissions are tougher than ever. Our guide has everything students need to get in and transition to university.University Rankings### Canada’s Best Comprehensive Universities for 2026Schools in this category offera wide range of undergraduatedegrees, and have a significantamount of research activityUniversity Rankings### Canada’s Best Primarily Undergraduate Universities for 2026The same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on macleans.ca.
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://macleans.ca");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { Spider } from "@spider-cloud/spider-client";
const spider = new Spider({ apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY! });
const result = await spider.scrapeUrl("https://www.macleans.ca", {
return_format: "markdown",
});
console.log(result);Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What macleans.ca costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000666 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
- Free balance on signup
- No card required to test
- Balance never expires
Run it keyless, no account
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Start scraping macleans.ca.
You already have the call. A key raises the rate limit and turns on browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Balance never expires, and top-ups go through secure checkout.